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'J. B. SOSTMANN. BUNG EXTRAGTOR.

Patented Nov. 18, 1890.

NITED STATES ATENT FFICE JOHN B. SOSTMANN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-THIRD T0 LOUIS HOFMAN, OF SAME PLAGE.

BUNG-EXTRACTOR.

SZEECIFICATION forming part 0f Letters Patent N0. 441 113, dated. November 18, 1890.

Applicacion fi1ed August 21, 1890. Serial N0. 362619. (N0 mode1.)

T0 all wh0m z't mag concern:

130 it known that I, JOHN B. SOSTMANN, of

St. Louis, State 0f Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bung-Extractors, of which the following is a fu1l, dem, and exact description, reference being had to the aceompanying drawings, f0rming a part thereof.

My invention has f01 its 0bject to provide a novel and simplified construetion in hungextractors; and it consists in the novel combination und arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fu1ly described, and designated in the c1aim.

In the 'drawings, Figure 1 is a side e1evati0n of 1ny improved bung-extracror, illustrating the manner 0f applying the sa1ne and in position f01 extract-ing the bang. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of my invention.

The object 0f my invention is 130 provide an implement by means 0f which the ordinary wooden bung commonly nsed in beerkegs may be extracted with perfeet ease and wi'oh but very lit1e labor 011 the part 0f the operator; and it consists 0f a bar 0f m eta1 one end of whicl1 is sufficiently bent and sharpenec1to forn1 a piek 01 chopper and the opposite end thereof a hook, the said bar being secured to a 1ever 01 handle between the said pick and 1100k, the details 0f which will be hereinafter more ful1y described.

Heretofore t0 accomplish the object aimed ab a 1100k has been applied to the end 0f a long bar 0f metal and the bung 0xtraeted by cunting a portion 0f the san1e out 0f the bush, as in the pressent case, and inserting the said hookin the opening thus formed between the bung and bush, allowing the hook and bar secured thereto t0 fall o0 the opposite side of the keg and the bung ext-ra-eted by app1ying sufficieno force vertically '00 withg1raw the same.

Referring 150 the drawings, 1 represents a bar of metal 0f suffieien size t0 answer the purpose f01 which 113 is designed, 0ne end 0f which terminates in a sharpened edge and properly bent t0 form a pick 01 chopper 2, by 1neans of which the bung is chopped partially 0ut 01 reduced in size for t-he purpose 0f allowing snffieient space f0r the insertion of 11110 hook 3. The 1ower portion of the bar 1 terxninates in a hook 3, the end of whi0h projects outward and in the saune direction with the bent 01 curved portion 0f the picker 2.

4 represents a lever of suffieient length, the

'lower (211d o1": whieh is bent ab an angle of about fort-y-five degrees, and the said portion fastened t0 the bar 1 between the chopper 2 and hook 3 by means 0f rivets 01' bolts 5 uniting nhe said lever and bar.

This implement may 100 constructed 01. 0110 s01id pieee of metal by easting, welding, 01 otherwise, zmd thus dispense with the bolts o1 rivets.

In applying the imple'ment the bung 5 is first p artially chopped out 01 redueed by 11110 ehopper 2, allowing suffieieno space between 13110 said bang and bush 6 f0r the admission 0f the h0ok 3 0f theextraetor.

\Vhen the implemeno is in proper position f0r extraeting the bung, as shown in Fig. l, the hee1 7 0f the szune Will rest upon the upper 01 flared portion of the bush whieh forms the fulerun1 0f the 16V81, the hook 3 being 10- cated between the bang and bush, the end of which hook is in a position t0 be pressed against the low er surfaee 0f the bung, by 1 which means the sa1ne is wiuhdrawn when power is applied t0 ohe lever.

The hook 3 for extracting the bung' may be placed at '(h0 exureme upper end 0f the 1ever 4, and the said handle ab 13110 rear 01: the said hook acts as 11110 fulcrum for the same, as shown in Fig. l.

This invention may be further modified. by forming a hook 011 the extreme lower portion 0f ehe 1ever 4:, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, and the bar l acs as the fulcrnm f0r t-he device, dispensing in 1shis Gase With nhe ho0k, zus shown in solid 1ines in said .figure.

By the construcbion of o11e bung-extrztctor as shown the bung can 100 easi1y and successfu1l y withdrawn by applying a slight' pressure up0n the lever, causing the hook to bear up0n the lower portion 0f the said bung and the hee1 7 of the lever t0 bea-r upon the bush 01' Having fu1ly described my iuvontion, what the ofiset ab the base of the 110 k, substan- I e1aim is tial1y as deseribed. 10

In a bung-extraccor, a lever eonstituting a In testimony whereof1 affix my signature in handle, an oifset portiou at 0110 end thereof, presence of wo witnesses. 5 a h0ok at the lovver end of. the offset portion, JOHN B. SOSTMANN.

a curved pointed chopper secured to said por- WVitnesses: tion and projecting in a direction opposite t0 O. F. KELLER, that 0f the hook, and a fulcrum f01med 011 E. E. LONGAN. 

